No. Frost will kill the blooms. Up here any frost around Easter kills the early berries. Also with newly planted blueberries, I always tell people to pull off the blossoms from the first year plants that way they grow roots not berries.

Our red clay soil is very acid. I have never put fertilizer to them. We grow rabbit eye types. Tiff Blue is a great producer. The wife charges $10 a gallon for pick your own ( u pick). Just leave the money on the porch.

How well do they grow in the south? I thought they were more of a northern plant? I know you have the low PH down there, but can they take the heat?

They grow tons of blueberries along the west coast of Michigan.

Most of the plants are growing in my neighbors front yard. He doesn't use very many of them. We fertilize them and pick most of them.We pick a couple of gallons of blueberrys each weekend during the season for about 6 weeks. What we don't eat, my wife makes blueberry preserves out of. We also freeze a lot of them for making blueberry muffins. we also make sure to give my neighbor preserves and muffins. Jim

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a friend of mine has a blueberry farm in south Mississippi. he was needing to know how many hives per acre are needed for blueberry pollination?

Last year I moved my hives to the farm just after the blueberries started to bloom. I kept checking to see if the bees were pollinating them. I never did see a honey bee on the BB bushes but I did see a lot of carpenter bees on them and a few blue bees. I suspect because it is so hard for the bees to get the nectar they probable preferred the plants in the area, mainly gall berry. I would be willing to bet if you could get them to work it, one hive could handle 2-3 acres. Maybe someone else here knows for sure.Jim

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